100-Mile Paddle Plans

Plans for the second Sea Peptide Salties adventure are coming together nicely. In late June/early July we will travel to Wilmington, North Carolina to begin our Stand Up Paddle adventure.

Each day we will paddle for three to four hours in the morning, stopping for a nice lunch.

Then we will paddle for a few more hours to our stop for the night. After a hot shower at a local hotel we will be off to explore the town and eat a great meal in a local restaurant. Then our warm beds will welcome us as we rest up for the next day.

Each day we will get to see different seaside towns and explore a different part of the Intracoastal Waterway. We will test our blood sugar together and experience the camaraderie that comes from working towards an adventure of this magnitude.

But the adventure won't start in June when we board our flights. It will start the day we finalize our team and we begin to discuss training strategies and blood sugar strategies. It will come as we all have a fresh new look at what it takes to stay in good health not just to stave off long-term complications down the road, but to reap the rewards in the short-term.

By working hard to take care of ourselves, we will train harder and stay healthier. By focusing our attention on preparing for this adventure, our overall care will benefit.

So will you join us on this journey? We would love to have you on the team.

If you are interested, it would be great if you could let me know by filling out an application at bit.ly/spsupapp . It's nothing formal. Just a way for me to see who's intereste

If you don't want to paddle, but still want to be a part of the team, we will be bringing a photographer to get amazing footage of our adventure. An application for that is at www.bit.ly/spspjapp .

If you know anyone who might be interested in joining us, would you be kind enough to let them know. You could also post on your social media sites.

Sea Peptide SUPers Application

We are gearing up for another huge trip. This time we will be Stand Up Paddling 100 miles in the Intracoastal Waterway from Wilmington, North Carolina to Beaufort, North Carolina. And we are looking for some amazing people to join the team. Are you up for a year of preparation that will help you focus on your diabetes care and push your training to a new limit? We are also looking for a great media maven who will work with us to record our adventure through photos and video. Applications will be available September 26. But if you want to get your hands on one sooner than everyone else, you can join the Sea Peptide Salties News List below. You will be the first to see the application and get in the front of the line for this amazing adventure.

Ernest Shakleton- South Pole Pioneer

When we were cruising around Key West on our last adventure, we stopped for a while at Key West Island Books. I love checking out used book stores on my travels and needed something to read on the flight home. I had already finished most of the screenplay I was working on during the flight out and needed something to fill my time on the plane.

And boy did I find the right one. Endurance, Shakleton's Incredible Voyage is about a failed 1914 sailing expedition to the South Pole. The sailing ship became locked in the ice for ten months before it was finally crushed spilling out it's crew onto a melting ice pack. They then traveled 850 miles to get to the nearest living human for rescue. During the eighteen month ordeal, Shakleton was rock steady and made amazingly hard decisions to lead all of his crew to safety through unimaginable cold, driving winds, and seas that would freeze on the sailors face into giant icicles. I think what I love most about this story of adventure is that although Shakleton never made it to his original destination he still got what he came for, a lifetime worth of adventure and challenges. Every time you go on an adventure, you put yourself out in the open, inviting the unexpected to come your way. And most of the time you get it. Those diversions are usually the thing that makes the expedition. I read the book during the whole flight and finished it that night. Such a great story of a man who prepared for the unexpected and had the strength to lead through the toughest eighteen months many of us will ever see. Now, that's my kind of adventurer.